brutish
Origin of brutish
1Other words from brutish
- brut·ish·ly, adverb
- brut·ish·ness, noun
Words Nearby brutish
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How to use brutish in a sentence
From archaeological reconstructions of Neanderthals as stooped, hairy and brutish, to “cavemen” movies, our ancient ancestors got bad press.
Six Recent Discoveries That Have Changed How We Think About Human Origins | Penny Spikins | October 9, 2022 | Singularity HubPerhaps her sensibility toward comics as a woman who wasn’t always the primary target for the brash masculinity of the ’90s had mellowed her to some of the brutish standards of the period.
‘Y: The Last Man’ Is a New Blockbuster TV Series Challenging Gender Identity | Tirhakah Love | September 10, 2021 | The Daily BeastThe story was so appalling, the attack so brutish and morally offensive, that it provoked an immediate, furious response.
Why It Was Right to Question Rolling Stone’s U-VA Rape Story | Michael Moynihan | December 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThink of it as the Jersey Shore exception, where you can act like a brutish goon and the first bust is essentially a do-over.
Ray Rice Should Have Remembered His 'Kindness' Anti-Bullying Wristband | Michael Daly | September 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSprewell also joins one of cogs in Pat Riley’s brutish ‘90s teams in racking up massive amounts of debt.
Guns, Blow Jobs, and Choke Holds: a History of the New York Knicks | Robert Silverman | February 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
The process of Republican change is going be what we might call a two-thirds Hobbes: nasty, brutish, and long.
Yet the brutish rhetoric inevitably coming from GOP opponents will only alienate Hispanics even more than they already are.
Obama Realigns, the GOP Declines: The New Political Paradigm | Robert Shrum | February 1, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTCourage, that a poor private carrying a musket has to spare of; that does not fail a weasel or a rat; that is a brutish faculty?
The Pocket R.L.S. | Robert Louis StevensonA brutish Indian; a favorite expression of the Limeños when speaking of the Indians, who certainly do not merit the compliment.
I do grace him as much as I may, for I find him marvellous greedy to do anything to recover the conceit of his brutish offence.'
Sir Walter Ralegh | William StebbingThese two children were full of vices—the little girl was untruthful, the boy brutish.
Bouvard and Pcuchet, part 2 | Gustave FlaubertAre there gods, yet suffer Such innocent sweetness to be made the spoil Of brutish violence?
The Plays of Philip Massinger | Philip Massinger
British Dictionary definitions for brutish
/ (ˈbruːtɪʃ) /
of, relating to, or resembling a brute or brutes; animal
coarse; cruel; stupid
Derived forms of brutish
- brutishly, adverb
- brutishness, noun
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